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Fast Forward Dominique Strauss-Kahn Says Didn’t Know Bunga Bunga Women Were Hookers
(Reuters) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn did not know the women at “festive and playful” sex parties he attended were prostitutes, he told a French court on Tuesday, saying that would have been too risky given his then-role as head of the IMF. Strauss-Kahn, 65, is accused of instigating about a dozen parties he knew involved prostitutes…
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Culture Je Suis Dreyfus
Hardly a day goes by without France figuring prominently in the news. So widespread and insistent is this coverage that it calls to mind an earlier occasion in which goings-on in Paris seized hold of the American imagination. I refer, of course, to l’affaire Dreyfus. Then, as now, the latest technologies of information — postcards,…
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Fast Forward Morocco Touts Effort To Preserve Jewish Cemeteries
Moroccan Jews touted their country’s efforts to preserve Jewish cemeteries at the opening of an exhibition on Morocco in Paris. The preservation efforts, launched in 2010, have restored at least 167 Jewish burial sites, and were celebrated during the Feb. 1 opening of the “Contemporary Morocco” exhibition at the French capital’s Arab World Institute, the…
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Fast Forward 3 French Soldiers Stabbed at Nice Jewish Center
Three French soldiers protecting a Jewish community center in the southern French city of Nice were attacked by a knife-wielding man. One soldier was stabbed in his arm and another was cut on his face in the Tuesday afternoon attack, the French news agency AFP reported. The soldiers were on anti-terror patrol outside the JCC,…
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Fast Forward Dominique Strauss-Kahn Goes on Trial in Prostitution Case
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief tipped to become French president before a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011, went on trial in France on Monday in a separate case of alleged procuring of prostitutes. Strauss-Kahn, 65, who settled a U.S. civil case with chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo after…
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Culture In Angouleme, Israeli Cartoonists Talk About Charlie Hebdo — And BDS
The International Comics Festival opens this weekend in Angouleme, France. Just like last year, SodaStream is one of backers of the festival. And once again, another petition to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel has popped up, calling on the festival’s organizers to refuse any funding and cooperation with Israeli companies. Last year, BDS’s main…
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Fast Forward Jack Lew Meets With French Jewish Leaders
The Jews of France are committed to remaining in their country, U.S. Treasury secretary Jacob Lew said after meeting with the community’s leadership in Paris. “What I heard was a real desire to stay in France and have France be a place where they felt safe,” Lew told reporters from the Jewish media in a…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Faces Trial for Hate Rant
French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala will stand trial for saying that a Jewish journalist should have died “in the gas chambers.” Known as Dieudonné, the comedian was filmed with a hidden camera in 2013 making the comment about French journalist Patrick Cohen, according to the New York Times. The footage, which was broadcast on French…
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